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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

NASA wasn't born with a rocket in its hand — it was forged in the heat of the Cold War, when the race to space became a global obsession. Since its founding, the agency has transformed from a scrappy ...

Some of the glorified careers we hear about as kids include firefighters who save lives, doctors who cure illnesses, and last, but not certainly not least, astronauts who venture to space. If you grew ...

If you have a taste for adventure to go where few have gone before, then you might want to sign up to be a NASA astronaut. On Dec. 14, for the first time in four years, NASA began accepting ...

The chairman of a congressional subcommittee examining NASA’s aeronautics spending plan is asking whether deliberate national strategy rather than budget pressure should guide the federal government’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NASA has asked our fellow Earthlings just how well they know their neighbourhood - and by that they mean our Solar System. The US space ...

Some of the glorified careers we hear about as kids include firefighters who save lives, doctors who cure illnesses, and astronauts who venture into space. If you grew up in the US, then NASA's ...

On Sep 26, 2022, NASA’s DART crashed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos of the asteroid system Didymos. The DART spacecraft was successful in altering the orbit of the target asteroid Dimorphos. A new ...

On Sunday night, while the rest of us were ooohing and aaahing over gymnastics, a bunch of propeller heads at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were flawlessly steering a billion-dollar robotic ...